Joanne Harratt
Supportive counsellor for emotional and relationship struggles
About Joanne
Joanne Harratt is a counsellor with ten years' experience helping people face stress, anxiety and relationship problems. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, often written as BACP. Joanne listens without judgement and focuses on what matters to each person who comes to her.
Joanne offers a calm space to talk through current pressures or past experiences that still affect daily life. She helps people notice patterns - such as repeated choices or strong emotional reactions - and understands how those patterns link to feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
Work is client-led and tailored to individual needs. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including depression, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, and difficulties around intimacy and communication. She also supports people dealing with family problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and life changes such as separation or bereavement.
Joanne draws on approaches that value the person's own experience and relationships. She uses client-centred work, emotionally-focused ideas about attachment and emotion, and psychodynamic thinking about past influences on present behaviour. Sessions aim to make thoughts and feelings clearer so practical change becomes possible.
Before working in independent practice she volunteered with charities supporting women with complex needs and with male survivors of sexual violence. This experience informs her sensitive way of working and her focus on safety and respect in sessions.
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Sessions & fees
How Joanne's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and choices. The counsellor offers active listening and reflection to help people make sense of their feelings and decide what they want to change. This approach can help with low self-esteem, stress, and making difficult decisions.Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at emotions and attachment patterns in relationships. It helps people understand why they react to others in particular ways and works on building stronger emotional connection and clearer communication. This can be useful for relationship strains and intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joanne will work with each person to decide which ideas and methods feel most helpful. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during sessions.
Online work offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family commitments, or mobility needs while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
